A Handmade Palette–Natural, Historical & Garden-grown Watercolors

$870.00

Full

Dyeing

Brasstown

Week (Sunday-Saturday)

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Jul

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04:00

09:00

Schedule Type Title: Every Day of the Week

Schedule Description: Daily

Program Area: Dyeing, Painting, Nature Studies

Instructor: Natalie Stopka

Studio/Location: Wet Room

Student Materials: Please bring the following: -Notebook and/or sketchbook -preferred watercolor brushes. -apron -garden shears for harvesting plants -gardening gloves

School Fee & Materials: Fresh materials to harvest from our dye garden, Indigo, madder, Weld.

Instructor Materials: She says: There’s a massive spreadsheet for that. All supplies needed.

Equipment Needs: Stove access (6 burners), -sink access, dye pots (6) strainers/sieves -buckets -digital scale (4) -thermometer -pH strips -gloves -distilled water (4 gallons) -Fresh Dyes from the garden: madder (250g dry/1kg fresh), weld (100g dry/500g fresh), and indigo (about 5kg fresh from roughly 15 square feet). -If available to borrow from Painting: 6 Mullers and 6 slabs

Skill Level: All levels

Total Materials Fees: $75

1 Folk School Rd
1 Folk School Rd
Brasstown, NC 28902

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Where does color come from? Delve into the history, chemistry, and hands-on practice of making pigments and paint. Concoct your own palette of handmade watercolors inspired by artists’ recipes from the 14th to the 17th-century, including earth pigments, lake pigments from the dye garden, and charcoal combined with natural medium. Return home with a paint box of twelve watercolors, a sketchbook of recipes and swatches, and the knowledge to continue expanding your palette.

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Where does color come from? Delve into the history, chemistry, and hands-on practice of making pigments and paint. Concoct your own palette of handmade watercolors inspired by artists’ recipes from the 14th to the 17th-century, including earth pigments, lake pigments from the dye garden, and charcoal combined with natural medium. Return home with a paint box of twelve watercolors, a sketchbook of recipes and swatches, and the knowledge to continue expanding your palette.

$75

Natalie Stopka is an artist and educator focused on the material history of color and sustainable studio practice. Plant dyes and handmade pigments provide her with a seasonally-evolving vocabulary of texture and color generated from the soil underfoot and the water moving through it. Natalie’s studio and dye garden are in Yonkers, New York. She holds a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and MFA from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.

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